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''INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. NEUTRAL IN NONE."
VOLUME XXIV.
MK1NLEYISSH0TD0WN
Nations Chief Executive the Victim
of an Assassin at the Buf
falo Fair.
Extends His Hand in Greeting to One of
Great Throng and Receives Dan
gerous Wounds.
While Blood Stains His Clothing the Wounded
Man Assures His Frfends that He
Is Not Fatally Hurt.
Would-Be Murderer Is Quickly Taken ' Into
Custody to Escape Terrible Fury of
the People.
Tragedy Recalls the Slaying of Lincoln and
Garfield Whole Nation Expresses Pro
found Sorrow.
In tlu presence of thousands of peo
ple President McKlnley win Hliot
down ly mi iissussln u few minutes
after 4 o'clock Friday afternoon In the
Temple of Music at the Pun-Auiorlciui
Exposition grounds. One bullet struck
the breastbone, glanced aside Into the
llesh and was easily remove I ly sur
geons. The other entered the nbdo
men, pierced the front and rear walls
of the stomach and burled Itself In
some spot In the President's body not
readily reached by the probes of the
Burgeon. This more serious wound
was dressed and closed with several
stitches and the physicians awaited
results,' declaring the President had a
fair chance for recovery. The assail-
ASSAHsl.V I.KO.V CZOMIOSZ.
ant, Lean Czolgosz, was arrested Im
mediately. Subsequently he confessed
he was an anarchist and a disciple of
1:11111111 lioldinun.
The startling attack on the Chief Kx
ecutlve took place while the President
was cNchuiiglng pleasant greetings
with visitors to the exposition! Many
hundred people had shaken hands with
the. President, one of the last being
a burly colored man. lie iiiiirmiiro l
his acknowledgments of the honor and
moved on to make way for a heavily
built young fellow about -'8 years old
who was slowly following him In the
long Hue. There was nothing to mark
him from the thousands around him,
except that hu carried a haiidkorchluf
in his baud and even that, perhaps,
was scarce worthy of uotc, for tuo
building was small and crowded, the
weather was sultry and thousands of
handkerchiefs were In constant requi
sition. The young man moved rapidly
to a position Immediately In front of
tho President, so close that bo could
have shaken his hand. As ho hud douo
so many hundreds of times In tho pre
ceding half hour, Mr. McKlnley bowed,
smiled and oxtcuded his hand.
But tho young man did not grasp It.
80 quickly that tho watchful eyes of
tho President's bodyguard had 110 hint
of tho lucnnco In his movement, ho
raised the hand lu which tho handker
chief was held and tired two shots at
tho President. The handkerchief bad
covered a revolver, which bo had cap
rled thus opouly through tho crowd.
At the sound of the shots Detective
Ireland, of the secret servlco force,
leaped upon the man like a tiger and
wtfml BBr H
closo behind lilin catuo the colored man
who had just shaken bauds with the
President. While they struggled with
him on tho tloor President McKlnley
took a step backward and was Instant
ly clasped In the arms of Dctcctlvo
Gerry, another member of his body
guard. Tho President did not fall, nor
did he reel, although both bullets bad
struck hlui. Half turning his head to
tho olllccr, ho asked: ,
"Am I shot?" Evidently ho bad been
so stunned with surprise that he had
not felt tho Impact of tho bullets. Wbllo
ho was speaking the olllccr and Secre
tary Cortelyou had been lending hlin
backward to a chair and had torn open
his vest. Wood was on his shirt front
and Detective Gerry, answering bis
question, said:
"I fear you are, Mr. President."
Secretary Cortelyou sank on one kueo
hesldo tho President's chair and gazed
anxiously Into his face.
"Do not be alarmed." said the Presi
dent, "It Is nothing."
Ills head sank forward Into his hands
a moment and then ho ruined It briskly,
while tho stream of crimson welled
from tho wound In his breast and
spread In nn ever-widening clrclo on
his whito shirt front.
"Itut you nro wounded," exclaimed
Mr. Cortelyou, "let mo examine."
"No, no." Insisted tho President, "I
am not bndly Injured, I assure you."
With a bullet In his breast and an
other through his stomnch, ho did not
lose consciousness. He sat almost as
stanch and straight In his chair as
though his assailant's shots had missed
unci ho seemed the calmest and least
perturbed of tho Immense gathering.
President Mllburn and Secretary Cor
telyou were almost frantic with alarm,
but tho wounded man continued to as
sure them that bis Injuries were trill
lug. This dramatic scono upon tho little
platform was enacted In tho midst of
n terrlblo tumult, which continued un
interruptedly for many minutes.
When tho secret bcrvlco men and the
colored, man llrst threw themselves
upon Czolgusz, the assailant of the
President, and pinned htm to tho iloor
lest he should try to use tho revolver
ngnln, twenty more men hurled them
selves upon tho iwninblliig quartette
and burled Czolgosz. from sight. Every
man In that struggling, crazy throng
was striving to get hold of Czolgosz, to
strlko him, to rend him, to wreak upon
him In nny way the mad fury which
possessed them Instantly they realized
wlint ho hnd done.
Tho greater part of tho crowd was
stunned for an Instant by tho enormity
of tho crlino they witnessed, but when
tho reaction caino thoy surged forward
llko wild beasts, tho strongest tearing
tho weakest back out of tho way and
forcing themselves forward to whero
tho prisoner wns held by his captors.
All tho tlmo a tumult of sound tilled tlk
place, a hollow ronr at tlrst, punctuated
by tho shrieks of women, swelling Into
a medley of yells and curses. Men
said unintelligible things as they push
ed and crowded toward tho center of
the swaying mob. Thoy wanted to
lynch Czolgosz, whoover ho was. Thoy
wanted 'to seo him and they shouted
vainly at tho police officers In frout to
drag blm out.
Mat KITart to Osln HeveiiKs.
A littlo force of exposition guards,
penned iu by the clamoring mob,
fought desperately to bold their pris
oner from tho bloodthirsty crowd. They
bad Czolgosi safe and fast. His re
volver bad been wrenched from tils
band In the luaUnt that Detective Ire-
CHICAGO, 8ATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1901. TWELVE PAGES.
t
laud fell upon him. and ho was help-,
less, bruised and bleeding. Ills face
was cut when ho was thrown to the
tloor and u dozen eager, vicious hands
hnd struck at him and, reached him
over the shoulders of the officers.
Slowly, very slowly, tho littlo force
of police made way through tho
crowd, dragging the prisoner between ,
them. They were determined tbero
should bo no lynching. Things wero
WUKUK m'KINI.KY WAS 8IIOI'.
Diagram showing point where the bullet
cntercu tuo pony or inn rrcslilcut,
hud enough ns It was, uud a lynching
would havo been the crowning horror
of the day.
From outsldo tho building, whero the
uows hnd spread from Up to lip, more
thousands pushed and jostled and
shouted lu their eagerness to enter tho
building. Those lusldo wero struggling
In two directions tho moro timorous to
escape from the placo before 11 stam
pede should crush out tholr lives and
tho hot-headed to reach Czolgosz only
to reach Czolgosz wns their 0110 Idea.
President Keep Culm.
And thus tho contest raged wbllo the
President sat, palo but calm, in the
midst of tho excited littlo group on the
platform. It was Impossible- to take
lilm away at tho uiomeut. Every door
way was jammed with a crazy, shout
ing mob moving In two directions, try
lug to escape aud trying to enter. To
ward tho main door tho police were
fighting their way with fists and billies
to get Czolgosz out of tho crowd and
placo blm behind tho bars. Upon the
minutes which wero speeding might de
pend; tbe President's life, for no medl
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PRESIDENT WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
cal aid could reach him lu that mael
strom, and It wns evident thnt bo was
sorely wounded.
More police enme plunging Into the
crowd I torn bendqiia iters, where tho
direful nuws had sped. They hurled
themselves upon the swaying mob, they
struck and pushed aud shouted com
mands aud It slowly gave way just
enough so they could reach tho little
bund struggling to suvo Czolgosz from
n sudden aud frightful death. They
dragged him out. hustled him away
through the beautiful exposition grounds
and threw him behind barred doors,
where he was buved for tho law to deal
with him.
Mussing their men whero thoy could
best handle the excited crowd, tho po
lice cleared a passageway to 0110 of tho
doors for the bearing away of tbe Presi
dent, aud on the btretchur of an umbu-
laueu which had come clanging to tho
door ho was tenderly carried from tho
building aud boruo lu the ambuluuco to
the emergency hospital, near tho service
building, within the exposition grounds.
Though tills takes long lu tho telling,
probably It was not more than live min
utes from the time the shots were tired
until the President was In tho hospital
aud a hasty examination wns begun by
tbe surgeons. They discovered thnt oue
bullet hnd entered the breast almost di
rectly In the center or on tho median
Hue, but whether or not it had passed
Into tho lungs could not bo determined
except by probing. Tho other had
struck In tho abdomen live Inches bo
low tho left nipple ami 0110 mid a half
Inches to the left of the median Hue.
Immediately under that spot Is the
stomach, aud tho gravest fears wero en
tertained regarding the consequences of
that shot.
Just twenty years after President
Gartlcld fell before tho bullets of the
demented Gultcnu another attempted
assassination bus been added to Ameri
can history. For the third tlmo sluco
the nation began n man with murder In
his heart lias sought to lemovo tho chief
executive.
Tho day of tho crisis la President Mc
Ktnley's condition passed Tuesday, tho
surgeons, without too much exultation,
declnred tho danger substantially over,
and tho nation ouco moro breathes free
ly In tho contldeuco thnt tho President
will live. Vox four days tho peoplo
went through a period of almost heart-
breaking anxiety, and It was with a
sigh of Infinite relief that they turned
back to the accustomed channels of life,
convinced that tliu assassin's bullet had
failed.
The President Is convalescent, lie Is
getting well with nuinrlug rapidity. Ills
surgeons are null sntlslU'd with his pro
gress; hi fact, they are surptlsod lit It.
All conditions are as tliey should bo lu a
patient who Is fast rccincilng, and who
Is soon to bo 011 Ills feet again.
CONFlCHsl H HIS f.Ull.T.
I. con C'otKOnas Telia of III Attack mi
the President.
I.eou Colgusz, the accused mid self
confessed nssasslu, signed a confession,
la which he snys that hu is an anarchist,
and that hu decided 011 tho aet three
days lieforu mid bought lu H11IT11I0 the re
olvur with which It wns committed. Ho
I unmarried, lie claims to lie a member
of tho Golden Kaglcs. Czolgoz has nut
nppcuwed hi tho least uneasy or penitent
for his action and shows 110 sign of In
snnltv. Tho mnn's iinine Is I.eon Colgosz. lie
Is of Polish-Herman extraction. UU
homo Is lu Cleveland, where ho bus seven
brothers and sisters. Uo Is an avowed
anarchist mid 1111 ardent disciple of Km-
czoi.aosz's CUNXINO.
Ilou-tlm nituMln concealed lha rotohor in I1I1
li inilkerchlef.
inn Goldman, whoso teachings, ho al
leges, nro responsible for his attack oa
tho President. He denies steadfastly
that lie Is thu Instrument of any body
of anarchists or tho tool of any cotorle of
plotters. Ho declares that ho did sot
have a confederate.
In Now York, where this would-be as
sassin must bo tried, tho severest penalty
for. assault with attempt to commit mur
der Is ten years' luiprlionmeut, while In
tho District of Columblta tho penalty for
tho same crime Is Imprisonment for from
seven to twenty yean.
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DEVILISH REDS DOOMED
Shots Fired at McKlnley Have Sounded
the Death Knell of Anarchism
in America.
No Room in This Great Republic for
Murderous Fiends of the Leon
e
Czolgosz Cult.
Nation Is Aroused, and Special Legislation
Against Anarchists and Anarchy Is
to Be Enacted.
Cowardly Plotters of Assassination and Deflers
of Law to Be Stamped Out with
an Iron Heel.
Federal Officials Active in Determination to Dis
cover Whether There Existed Conspiracy
to Slay the President.
The doterniliitlon of the nuth-wltles
national. State and munlelpal-to stamp
out anarchism In this country Is shown
by dispatches from the lending cities. The
New York police have orders to rttrest
nil pervins known to be anarchists. The
police of Philadelphia and other large
titles have their dragnets out. At Pitts
burg two Important arrests have been
made which may supply the missing links
in the chain of evidence connecting 1-in-ma
(ioldinnn with the attempt on Presi
dent McKlnley's life. The federal au
thorities arrested near Silver City. X. M..
Antonio Mngglo. who predicted that the
President would be assassinated before
Oct. 1. Arrists have 11N0 been made at
Omaha and oilier il'lcs.
The federal iiutlioiltles at Washington
believe they have discovered a statute un
der which' anarchists may be tiled for
conspiracy, lu all pints of the country
men who express i-yinputhy for Czolgosz
are being dismissed from their positions
or summarily piinMied by their luigh
burs. Kimiiii (ioldnian, wliixo anarchistic lec
tures stirred l.eou Czolgosz to shoot Pres
ident McKlnby. was arrested by thu Chi
cago police In tliu House at ". nni-iiii-in
avenue Tuesday afternoon. In tell big
of her whereabouts dining thu preceding
ten days she spoko freely, and said that
she was lu Pittsburg early the previous
week. From tlieiu she went to Cincin
nati, where she remained until Thursday
evening, when she went to St. l-oiiis. M10
sold she reached Chicago Saturday morn
ing, and saw thu polite at tliu station
watching for her.
The nuiirihlst leader made admissions
from which the police hope to gather
much. Shu admitted knowing the would
be assassin of tho President. July 1
sho met him for 11 few moments In (Id
eago. Twice she admitted being In IJuf
Xalo tills summer once about tho middle
of .Inly and tint second tlmo nliout the
middle of August. On the second visit
to Huff u lo she vUlted thu Pnn-Anierlciiu
IlMiosItlou.
Miss linldmnn denied emphatically that
she was in any way connected with the
attack upon tliu President. She declined
tli.it there was nothing hi her teachings
to result In violence. Ill thu same breath
slid called McKlnley thu most Insignia
...... Hi.,l,li.tit In tin. Idstorv of thu couu-
lrj n weak tool of capital tho enemy of
tho liilsirlng man. Shu declared that
doubtless CV.olgos. had "Just causes" to
dilvu hlin to tlio act hu committed.
Tlio Importance of thu enpturo of this
anarchistic leader Is deemed immense by
the federal authorities.
A Huffitlo dispatch on Wednesday said
that tV.oln had confessed to tliu police
that his attempt upon the life of Piesl
dent McKlnley was the result of a coti
cplrucy In which many besides himself
hud a' part. So far as can bo learned,
Colgos. tefused to mention any uauiu
exiept that of Kiniim Oohlmaii, hut pa
pers are lu existence which, If they can
bo dlscoveied, will lay bate the entire
conspiracy, and will result In wholesale
arrests, followed by prosecutions,
In his confession Czolgosz told of his
attempt to destroy the wiltten ovhhnccs
of the conspiracy. He has said that
tlmo did not permit him to burn the pa
pers as he had desired, lleforc leaving
his room lu Xownk's Hotel, ho gathered
together all of Ids pupirs, taking them
from his pockets, from his valise and
from the drawers of his table. All were
bound together In one package, which ho
concealed beneath his coat.
Czolgosz says that hu made a circuit
ous and aimless trip ahout the city, and
that tit somo point, which lie cannot now
describe, hu came upon an open sewer.
Into this sewer he cast his papers, Inch
by Inch tho sewers of this city aro be
NUMBER 623.
ing searched, and. If such n thing Is pos
sible, those papers will be recovered.
A plot to kill the President is said to
have been hatched n year ago when h
was expected to visit Chicago during the
Orand Army encampment mid ticw the
big parade of veterans. The plot wns
balked by the announcement at the Inst
moment that, owing to the press of busi
ness at Washington growing out of thu
Chinese complications, the Piesldent
would be unable to meet his old army
comrades In Chicago.
In pronouncing the death sentence upna
the llnyiuaiki anarchists lu Chicago,
Oct. l, 1SSII, Judge Joseph IC. (Jury said:
And Till: LAW IS COMMON HIlNrtK.
It holds each mini resiotisllile for the nat
ural and piolialilc eoasisiucnce of his own
nets. It holds Hint ulim'wr advises munler
is niMsi:i.r iii'ii.tv or Tin: .intii:it
THAT IS t'O.MMITTt:i lTKHPAXT TO
1IIS ADVICi:: and If men hand together for
forcible resistance, in tin. execution of tho
law, AND ADVISi: MI'ltlHIlt as a mentis
of laaklag such resistance cn'cctunl, whether
such udtlco lie to one man to niiudcr an-
xmma nor, iimax.
other, or to a niuaeioiis clax to murder men
of another class, nil who are so I1.1111I01I te
gelher am III'II.TV Ol' ANY MIMtlUIlt
THAT IS i:o.M.MtTTi:i IN I't'ItSL'ANL'i:
of sucii Aiivii'i:.
Ihieli man has the full right to entertain
and advocate liy speech and pilal, such npl 11
loiis as suit himself; and I he great li.xly of
the people will usually care little what he
says; lint If hu propusis murder as a menus
of elifoicliig them, lie I't'TS HIS OWN
I.U'i: AT STAKII; and no clamor about freu
peech, or evils to he cured, or w longs to lie
redressed, will shield him fiom tho coiise
oueiiees of Ids citine. Ills liberty Is not a
license to destiny. The toleration that tie
enjoys lie must extend to others and nit to
arrogantly assume that the great majority
are wiong and mil) lightly bo coerced by ter
ror or tciuovcil by d)liillidte.
At the conclusion of his brief address
Judge (Jury sentenced to death till but
one of the anarchists. It will bo remem
bered that none of the leading Ha) mar
ket anarchists wero convicted of actually
throwing thu bomb which luveled thirty
sis policemen at one blow, Their share
In tliu ci line was eouliiied to llillnmut.l
tory speeches and wilthigs, to words of
vindictive hatred of tho ollleers of Un
law and to ADVfCK and PI.KADIXOK
for the destruction of human life that
seemed opposed to tho tenets of anarchy.
"I am not sure but what it would bo
possible to try Czolgosz by coiut-iu.irlinl,"
said Frederic It. C'oudert, thu well-known
New York lawyer. "I am sure that some
thing should be done to pioteet the Pres
ident. Such nu attack as was made on
him ought to be impossible, Thu muttei
of anarchists In America will receive tho
attention of thu public now that this has
happened, ami they will no longer ga
about threatening law aud order."
"Ho ought to hu strung up." That in
the manner lu which Mike Czolgos,
brother of l.eou Czolgosz, the Would-be
murderer of President McKiuloy, spoke
regarding his brother.
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